META IN TALKS WITH OPRAH WINFREY AND DALAI LAMA TO EXPLORE ITS TWITTER-LIKE APP

Sat 10 June 2023:

The future micro-blogging network “sanely run” from Meta will use Instagram’s account system to automatically populate a user’s information.

According to The Verge, Meta is in talks with prominent figures including Oprah Winfrey, the Dalai Lama, and DJ Slime about becoming early users of their Twitter alternative.

The ‘ActivityPub’ decentralized social media protocol will be integrated with the new standalone app, which will be based on Instagram, according to a report from Athe.

The initial name of the project was Project 92. The software is now also called as “Threads,” and Meta staffers just had a preview of the Instagram-based app.

The Twitter-like app will “theoretically allow users of the new app to take their accounts and followers with them to other apps that support ActivityPub, including Mastodon”.

“We’ve been hearing from creators and public figures who are interested in having a platform that is sanely run, that they believe that they can trust and rely upon for distribution,” according to Meta chief product officer Chris Cox.

During a companywide meeting, Cox reportedly said that the new app will be “our response to Twitter”.

The company’s goal for the app was “safety, ease of use, reliability” and making sure that creators have a “stable place to build and grow their audiences.”

In early March, Meta confirmed to Platformer that the company is “exploring a standalone decentralised social network for sharing text updates”.

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